Previously, monster cable vs. using a coat hanger for a speaker wire.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&channel=ent...
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
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Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#12The complete story: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
The last paragraph with upside downside comments are legendary
Plus the threat to impose even bigger costs with anti trust violation claims!
Need to imagine the face of the in-house counsel reading it.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#13The complete story: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
For anybody who’s wondering what happened next, this is from the above link: “Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter. But he, and Monster, did apparently know the first rule of holes: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." The end, therefore, of the story was a bit anticlimactic. Knowing that I was able to defend my…
This reminds me of the spat between Tekton Design speakers and a Youtube reviewer.
Tekton received such massive and negative feedback, he tried to backpedal the initial threat. But still, the gall. They suffered reputationally not from the [mildly] negative review, but from the fallout from the ill-advised threat of lawsuit.
https://www.audioresurgence.com/2024/04/tekton-speakers-revi...
[more neutral] https://musictech.com/news/gear/tekton-audio-allegedly-threa...
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#14So I clicked the first link to read about the actual claim, and I was floored by the author bio at the bottom: "Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for misconduct on April 4th, 2014. He no longer represents Audioholics in any fashion." Gotta wonder how bad you gotta screw up to have your byline on every article you wrote permanently set to that.
Sounds like a case of sour grapes, on the part of Audioholics. He seems to have done fairly well for himself, since then.
It's really hard to tell without more detail! I tried doing a bit of digging, but he was a really early staffer to join Audioholics, and was editor-in-chief when he was fired. He's editor-in-chief of another site now, which it looks like he founded. You probably have to do something pretty bad to get publicly fired for cause when you were the editor-in-chief, and him having a new site he made himself isn't exactly an assurance of innocence either. Just... kinda a wild random footnote on a link on an article from over a decade ago.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#15The complete story: https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/index.htm
The last paragraph with upside downside comments are legendary Plus the threat to impose even bigger costs with anti trust violation claims! Need to imagine the face of the in-house counsel reading it.
But in the end did monster actually face any penalty at all? They threatened the guy, the guy said no, end of story. The bully moves on to threaten the next guy. The story insinuates lasting damage but it seems kind of subtle...
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#16All bullies are cowards.
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Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
For anybody who’s wondering what happened next, this is from the above link: “Monster's counsel had made a horrible mistake, and probably caused lasting harm to the company, by sending me that ridiculous letter. But he, and Monster, did apparently know the first rule of holes: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging." The end, therefore, of the story was a bit anticlimactic. Knowing that I was able to defend my…
This reminds me of the spat between Tekton Design speakers and a Youtube reviewer. Tekton received such massive and negative feedback, he tried to backpedal the initial threat. But still, the gall. They suffered reputationally not from the [mildly] negative review, but from the fallout from the ill-advised threat of lawsuit. https://www.audioresurgence.com/2024/04/tekton-speakers-revi... [more neutral] https://musict…
It's amazing to me that the writer of that piece walked away with the conclusion that Eric Alexander was in the right.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#19So I clicked the first link to read about the actual claim, and I was floored by the author bio at the bottom: "Clint Deboer was terminated from Audioholics for misconduct on April 4th, 2014. He no longer represents Audioholics in any fashion." Gotta wonder how bad you gotta screw up to have your byline on every article you wrote permanently set to that.
Also gotta wonder if he might have sent a cease and desist about that bio.
Re: Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
#20I'm thinking, what are the odds that the president of some boutique audio cable company would be a litigator.